Month: November 2018

“Connecting science, math, language, engineering, architecture, physics, chemistry, ethics, and God to music with Charles Funn in High School, gave me a world wide approbation, appreciation, appetite, aptitude and cultural respect for unlimited possibilities as a world class, life long student of Love and Quality.” ~Jon Barnes

Praise

As a musician, understudy, and student you remember that one teacher in High School who flew above the clouds and attached a musical rope to you to travel with him during class, rehearsals, gigs, other performances, to connect life experiences to future reality.The connection, tools, and lessons of fatherhood become part of your DNA, as you share them with other students, family, and enemies for life. Good Christian Role Models are truly heroes in the sight of God.

Thankfully

Mr. Funn told me that I would be a great music teach, withprophetic tone on confidence and majesty, at my immediate disapproval.I was too young to see the vision myself and was rather blinded by the smell of money and other possibilities.He was Right!!!Thankfully, I recalibrate my thinking, followed my heart into God’s hands to balance my intellect with wisdom, grace, mercy, and love. Now I travel the world teaching people on different continents about things I learned from Mr. Funn and other mentors.

Officially

Finally, I can officially approve and sanction the path God has set in my life to embrace my current destination and future plans to help students worldwide.Great Teachers do not go unnoticed and I’m thankful to contribute to humanity on a global scale with what I have learned from the work ethics, music, and parenting skill of Manhood from Charles Funn.Being a blessing is the Official Road to take, even when it cost you with misunderstanding, roadblocks, and disapproval.Keep the faith.

Today’s Question

Did you apologize to God, your family, and your teachers for not listening and following the wisdom and love that was given to you?

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Job 15

Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job

15 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 “A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!You are nothing but a windbag.3 The wise don’t engage in empty chatter.What good are such words?4 Have you no fear of God,no reverence for him?5 Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.Your words are based on clever deception.6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I.Your own lips testify against you.

7 “Were you the first person ever born?Were you born before the hills were made?8 Were you listening at God’s secret council?Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?9 What do you know that we don’t?What do you understand that we do not?10 On our side are aged, gray-haired menmuch older than your father!

11 “Is God’s comfort too little for you?Is his gentle word not enough?12 What has taken away your reason?What has weakened your vision,[a]13 that you turn against Godand say all these evil things?14 Can any mortal be pure?Can anyone born of a woman be just?15 Look, God does not even trust the angels.[b]Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.16 How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful personwith a thirst for wickedness!

17 “If you will listen, I will show you.I will answer you from my own experience.18 And it is confirmed by the reports of wise menwho have heard the same thing from their fathers—19 from those to whom the land was givenlong before any foreigners arrived.

20 “The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives.Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.21 The sound of terror rings in their ears,and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.22 They dare not go out into the darknessfor fear they will be murdered.23 They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?’[c]They know their day of destruction is near.24 That dark day terrifies them.They live in distress and anguish,like a king preparing for battle.25 For they shake their fists at God,defying the Almighty.26 Holding their strong shields,they defiantly charge against him.

27 “These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;their waists bulge with fat.28 But their cities will be ruined.They will live in abandoned housesthat are ready to tumble down.29 Their riches will not last,and their wealth will not endure.Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.

30 “They will not escape the darkness.The burning sun will wither their shoots,and the breath of God will destroy them.31 Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches,for emptiness will be their only reward.32 They will be cut down in the prime of life;their branches will never again be green.33 They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early,like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.34 For the godless are barren.Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.Their womb produces deceit.”

“Bless God for giving me the heart, mind, and faith to follow His information and not my own, since obedience is the key to our salvation and loving God, ourselves, and others.” ~ Jon Barnes

Payment

Your righteous work is not always paid with fame, stuff, silver, gold, and money, but your entrance into heaven requires your righteous obedience into the kingdom of God, covered with the Blood of Jesus.Your repentance and obedience are required in your connection to God.Remember the scripture “Lord, Lord…!”

In

As a child of God, it is virtuous and vitally important to be a serious student of God’s Word, History, and Works, so that your faith can hold up to the test of time times Eternity in Heaven.I just don’t want to get caught sleeping on the sidelines with the devil, pretending everything is okay.If the righteous will barely make it into heaven and they are known to God for what they do, what hope does the fake Christian have?

Full

Fight and Run your race with God to the finish line, so that you may be blameless, full of wisdom and understanding from God about your salvation and your personal responsibility.Don’t leave these requirements up to someone else to show or explain your duties and services owed to God before you die.

Today’s Question

Did you Thank God for giving you the memo, mind, and heart for The Bible, to read and study for yourself, so that you are not caught off guard with the lies of this world?

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Job 14

14 “How frail is humanity!How short is life, how full of trouble!2 We blossom like a flower and then wither.Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.3 Must you keep an eye on such a frail creatureand demand an accounting from me?4 Who can bring purity out of an impure person?No one!5 You have decided the length of our lives.You know how many months we will live,and we are not given a minute longer.6 So leave us alone and let us rest!We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.

7 “Even a tree has more hope!If it is cut down, it will sprout againand grow new branches.8 Though its roots have grown old in the earthand its stump decays,9 at the scent of water it will budand sprout again like a new seedling.

10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.They breathe their last, and then where are they?11 As water evaporates from a lakeand a river disappears in drought,12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again.Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake upnor be roused from their sleep.

13 “I wish you would hide me in the grave[a]and forget me there until your anger has passed.But mark your calendar to think of me again!14 Can the dead live again?If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,and I would eagerly await the release of death.15 You would call and I would answer,and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.16 For then you would guard my steps,instead of watching for my sins.17 My sins would be sealed in a pouch,and you would cover my guilt.

18 “But instead, as mountains fall and crumbleand as rocks fall from a cliff,19 as water wears away the stonesand floods wash away the soil,so you destroy people’s hope.20 You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.You disfigure them in death and send them away.21 They never know if their children grow up in honoror sink to insignificance.22 They suffer painfully;their life is full of trouble.”

“I suggest you don’t take my word for anything, but check in with God and His Standards to understand what you are doing, what you should do, and what you should not do for your life, family, and others.”~ Jon Barnes

Great

God’s faithfulness to us is the greatest but we are not so faithful, which is why God gives us grace and mercy to repent and re–calibrate on a daily basis.However, it is wise to use God’s Lord’s Prayer to focus your attention, meditation, and action plan to remember your spiritual mission statement, boundaries, and landmarks.

Intentions

Your true intentions are perceived and known by God before you even think about or discover your own thoughts.Who you are and what you will do is already know by your Heavenly Father.My suggestion is to come clean, stay clean, and keep cleaning up your actions of faith, as you grow in Grace, Love, and Mercy. Do not let distractions become a stumbling block.

Perceived

I perceive that my job is to judge myself, look in the mirror, and manage my own life to exemplify God’s lifestyle.I can only enjoy looking at the fruit of others, which is not my fruit to eat.I will enjoy and eat the fruit of my own ways, habits, thoughts, works, and faith in God.We must all grow and eat our own fruit, which will be tested and tasted by God to see if you are fit for the kingdom.According to scriptures, many will go to hell and few will go to heaven.

Today’s Question

Are you one of the few who will be prepared for entering Heaven, based on God’s Holy Commandments and path of Jesus Christ or are you following the devil’s suggestions of choice?

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Job 13

Job Wants to Argue His Case with God

13 “Look, I have seen all this with my own eyesand heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.2 I know as much as you do.You are no better than I am.3 As for me, I would speak directly to the Almighty.I want to argue my case with God himself.4 As for you, you smear me with lies.As physicians, you are worthless quacks.5 If only you could be silent!That’s the wisest thing you could do.6 Listen to my charge;pay attention to my arguments.

7 “Are you defending God with lies?Do you make your dishonest arguments for his sake?8 Will you slant your testimony in his favor?Will you argue God’s case for him?9 What will happen when he finds out what you are doing?Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?10 No, you will be in trouble with himif you secretly slant your testimony in his favor.11 Doesn’t his majesty terrify you?Doesn’t your fear of him overwhelm you?12 Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.

13 “Be silent now and leave me alone.Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.14 Why should I put myself in mortal danger[a]and take my life in my own hands?15 God might kill me, but I have no other hope.[b]I am going to argue my case with him.16 But this is what will save me—I am not godless.If I were, I could not stand before him.

17 “Listen closely to what I am about to say.Hear me out.18 I have prepared my case;I will be proved innocent.19 Who can argue with me over this?And if you prove me wrong, I will remain silent and die.

Job Asks How He Has Sinned

20 “O God, grant me these two things,and then I will be able to face you.21 Remove your heavy hand from me,and don’t terrify me with your awesome presence.22 Now summon me, and I will answer!Or let me speak to you, and you reply.23 Tell me, what have I done wrong?Show me my rebellion and my sin.24 Why do you turn away from me?Why do you treat me as your enemy?25 Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind?Would you chase dry straw?

26 “You write bitter accusations against meand bring up all the sins of my youth.27 You put my feet in stocks.You examine all my paths.You trace all my footprints.28 I waste away like rotting wood,like a moth-eaten coat.

“God designed music, sound, and vibrations to move, accompany, and push the voice of thought, communication, and love, so thatyour actions fit the vibe of your intentions, without misinterpretation or deception.” ~ Jon Barnes

Creates

You were created to imagine and do what God has designed for you to do and He knows exactly what that looks like.Before you were born, your fate was sealed in God’s mind and now you are creating that vision.When you connect to God’s vision, you can see yourself and what you must do with His Communication, Commandments, and Conditions.

Calculates

God’s Calculations are infinitely far greater and above our primitive thoughts, patterns, comparisons, and wisdom and our imaginations are designed to perceive this fact. Our hearts can calculate the love of God when we connect to His Spirit to understand what the flesh of man cannot.

Contentment

As a result, we become content with the beauty and wonder of God, His Spirit, and Directives by choosing His Will over our own free will. This Great Gain of Glorious Love and Passion can only come from the Cross with The Blood of Christ, with Jesus as our Savior and Lord.God has effectively communicated that His Plan is The Only Plan!

Today’s Question

When you go outside after the sun rises, do you notice that God’s creations, plans, people, things, and character respect and follow God’s Communication or are you following your own evil thoughts to hell?

Enjoy The Reading

Job 12

Job’s Fourth Speech: A Response to Zophar

12 Then Job spoke again:

2 “You people really know everything, don’t you?And when you die, wisdom will die with you!3 Well, I know a few things myself—and you’re no better than I am.Who doesn’t know these things you’ve been saying?4 Yet my friends laugh at me,for I call on God and expect an answer.I am a just and blameless man,yet they laugh at me.5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble.They give a push to people who are stumbling.6 But robbers are left in peace,and those who provoke God live in safety—though God keeps them in his power.[a]

7 “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.8 Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.Let the fish in the sea speak to you.9 For they all knowthat my disaster[b] has come from the hand of the Lord.10 For the life of every living thing is in his hand,and the breath of every human being.11 The ear tests the words it hearsjust as the mouth distinguishes between foods.12 Wisdom belongs to the aged,and understanding to the old.

13 “But true wisdom and power are found in God;counsel and understanding are his.14 What he destroys cannot be rebuilt.When he puts someone in prison, there is no escape.15 If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert.If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.16 Yes, strength and wisdom are his;deceivers and deceived are both in his power.17 He leads counselors away, stripped of good judgment;wise judges become fools.18 He removes the royal robe of kings.They are led away with ropes around their waist.19 He leads priests away, stripped of status;he overthrows those with long years in power.20 He silences the trusted adviserand removes the insight of the elders.21 He pours disgrace upon princesand disarms the strong.

22 “He uncovers mysteries hidden in darkness;he brings light to the deepest gloom.23 He builds up nations, and he destroys them.He expands nations, and he abandons them.24 He strips kings of understandingand leaves them wandering in a pathless wasteland.25 They grope in the darkness without a light.He makes them stagger like drunkards.

“Doing more work for God with the resources that you have, while being obedient, is eternal contentment for the Soul, Spirit, and Love of God with great respect and reverence.”~ Jon Barnes

Music

It is music to my ears when God smiles at what I’m thinking, doing, saying, eating, wearing, and working on.I don’t need a title, pat on the back, or recognition, but when it comes, I’ll be thankful just the same.People will also call you out and thank you for the amazing work that you do, just as others will lie on you and ignore your great work.Count it all as joy and keep singing your music to God. He can Hear You before you make a sound!

Making

Making a difference in the lives of people, family, and yourself is a challenge, yet God makes it seem effortless when you follow His Flight Plan.The Angels of Air Traffic Control will assist you in takeoffs and landings with all of your travels.God’s Heavenly Planes do not Crash, Delay, Stall or Run out of Fuel.Keep your Flight Plan to make your life more enjoyable and easier and shine with God’s Speed that is Effortless.

Ministry

When I began to use my own money and time for my own ministry of help, my life started to make some sense.It took me a long time to figure this out, writing books, making CDs, and sharing them in many ways.My motives became more effortless and fruitful with giving, sharing, and caring along with the balance of buying, selling, and making because God is the center of my focus.

Today’s Question

Are you using God’s model for ministry from the Bible with wisdom, simplicity, and honor or is your bank account the center of your attention?

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Job 11

Zophar

11 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “Are all these words to go unanswered?Is this talker to be vindicated?3 Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?Will no one rebuke you when you mock?4 You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawlessand I am pure in your sight.’5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak,that he would open his lips against you6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,for true wisdom has two sides.Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.

7 “Can you fathom the mysteries of God?Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?8 They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do?They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?9 Their measure is longer than the earthand wider than the sea.

10 “If he comes along and confines you in prisonand convenes a court, who can oppose him?11 Surely he recognizes deceivers;and when he sees evil, does he not take note?12 But the witless can no more become wisethan a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.[a]

13 “Yet if you devote your heart to himand stretch out your hands to him,14 if you put away the sin that is in your handand allow no evil to dwell in your tent,15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;you will stand firm and without fear.16 You will surely forget your trouble,recalling it only as waters gone by.17 Life will be brighter than noonday,and darkness will become like morning.18 You will be secure, because there is hope;you will look about you and take your rest in safety.19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,and many will court your favor.20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,and escape will elude them;their hope will become a dying gasp.”

Wit

Notice the wit God uses in all of His Stories in the Bible to teach lessons, values, secrets, and commandments to His Children.Obedient children, know, learn, and grow in grace with God and their faith is the foundation of their being.

Will

The devil has no power against God, because God is the source of All Power and nothing happens without His Knowledge or Approval.Within this amazing universal balance, Good and evil occur as part of the story, choices, and power given from God.

Wisdom

As a result, wisdom is forged out of experience in life, love, spirit, and scriptures provided by God.His solutions manual to His Universe is complete, accurate, and most helpful for the Christian who loves God.The devil is a loser who must play his lost role in the battle, that is not really a battle at all in the sight of God, His Power, and Might.

Today’s Question

Do you really believe that nothing can stand against God?

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Job 10

10 “I loathe my very life;therefore I will give free rein to my complaintand speak out in the bitterness of my soul.2 I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,but tell me what charges you have against me.3 Does it please you to oppress me,to spurn the work of your hands,while you smile on the plans of the wicked?4 Do you have eyes of flesh?Do you see as a mortal sees?5 Are your days like those of a mortalor your years like those of a strong man,6 that you must search out my faultsand probe after my sin—7 though you know that I am not guiltyand that no one can rescue me from your hand?

8 “Your hands shaped me and made me.Will you now turn and destroy me?9 Remember that you molded me like clay.Will you now turn me to dust again?10 Did you not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese,11 clothe me with skin and fleshand knit me together with bones and sinews?12 You gave me life and showed me kindness,and in your providence watched over my spirit.

13 “But this is what you concealed in your heart,and I know that this was in your mind:14 If I sinned, you would be watching meand would not let my offense go unpunished.15 If I am guilty—woe to me!Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,for I am full of shameand drowned in[a] my affliction.16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lionand again display your awesome power against me.17 You bring new witnesses against meand increase your anger toward me;your forces come against me wave upon wave.

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?I wish I had died before any eye saw me.19 If only I had never come into being,or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!20 Are not my few days almost over?Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy21 before I go to the place of no return,to the land of gloom and utter darkness,22 to the land of deepest night,of utter darkness and disorder,where even the light is like darkness.”

“Each day, make your request know to God with the Lord’s Prayer and ask for directions with your daily activities to Supernaturally Charge your day.”~Jon Barnes

Request

Each request is fresh and each new solution God gives you makes great sense after you do what God says.In your own mind, you think that your wisdom is better.NOT!Trust God and stick with His Plans and scrap your own plans for the Ultimate Plan.Request that God helps you to focus on this Fact.

Reply

My reply is always, “Lord, Thank You for hooking a brother UP!I didn’t see this coming and I would have never dreamed of this idea unless you made it so.Bless God!”Your Father God wants to hear from you.Giving God the credit for His Plan for your life makes it easier to succeed in all of your endeavors and fun for you to avoid the nonsense that is waiting for you.

Granted

Access Granted is what you want to hear with each little step you take and the fruit of your faith and work will remain strong, full, and obvious forever in God.Your all-access pass is real for those who are called for God’s purpose, work, love, and faith. The options and descriptions of ignorance are merely a footnote in the timeline of eternity with God, that is granted to His Loving Children.

Today’s Question

Do you have access to God, His Ways, Lifestyle, and Bible to properly Petition and Place Proper Value upon His Plan and Path for your life?

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Job 8

Bildad

8 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 “How long will you say such things?Your words are a blustering wind.3 Does God pervert justice?Does the Almighty pervert what is right?4 When your children sinned against him,he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.5 But if you will seek God earnestlyand plead with the Almighty,6 if you are pure and upright,even now he will rouse himself on your behalfand restore you to your prosperous state.7 Your beginnings will seem humble,so prosperous will your future be.

8 “Ask the former generationand find out what their ancestors learned,9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,and our days on earth are but a shadow.10 Will they not instruct you and tell you?Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?Can reeds thrive without water?12 While still growing and uncut,they wither more quickly than grass.13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God;so perishes the hope of the godless.14 What they trust in is fragile[a];what they rely on is a spider’s web.15 They lean on the web, but it gives way;they cling to it, but it does not hold.16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,spreading its shoots over the garden;17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocksand looks for a place among the stones.18 But when it is torn from its spot,that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’19 Surely its life withers away,and[b] from the soil other plants grow.

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blamelessor strengthen the hands of evildoers.21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughterand your lips with shouts of joy.22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame,and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”